Subject: "Out of free storage"

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Jan 1997 14:04:35 -0500

I just crashed out of Unix pine while trying to send a message
and got this error message:

 Problem detected: "Out of free storage".
 Pine Exiting.
 Floating exception

What does this mean and which machine is the problem on.
I was:

 * logged on to machine a
 * responding to a message that was on machine b (accessed
   via IMAP)
 * using IMAP to save a copy of the message I was trying to
   to send on machine c
 * using an smtp server on machine d

So, was this a problem on machine a, b, c, or d and what kind
of problem is it?

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:12:12 -0800

The problem is on machine (a), the client.

The problem is that a malloc() call failed.

Were you trying to send something particularly large in the message?

> So, was this a problem on machine a, b, c, or d and what kind

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:13:59 -0500

>Were you trying to send something particularly large in the message?

No, it was a small message.  I think there was a general problem
on the system (machine a) because after I crashed out of pine,
and posted my msg about it, I got an error message when I tried
to just do a `w' to see who was on the system.

Thanks,
Nancy

PS - Is it possible for future versions of pine to give error
messages that tell which host the problem is on?  If IMAP
becomes popular (which I hope it does!), it will probably be
common for people to have scenarios like I described with 
machines a, b, c, and d being used for all different aspects
of a pine event.